Here and there but not quite everywhere!
We headed over to the Palace of Westminster, home of the UK Parliament, for the self-guided multimedia tour. Photography is only allowed in a few areas of the building so there isn’t too much to share here.
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Today, we spent most of the day in the City of London. We started out at the Sky Garden and ended at St. Paul’s Cathedral to the west.
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We spent the morning at the British Museum today. There is more to see there than is possible in one day. We probably passed through less than a quarter of the museum before giving up for lunch!
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We started our day by taking the Underground and DLR to Greenwich. We headed up the hill to the Royal Observatory where we spent the remainder of the morning. Afterwards, we headed back down into town to have lunch and to visit the historic ship Cutty Sark. We then caught the ferry by mere seconds to return to the center of London.
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We headed out this morning to visit the Tower of London right when it opened at 10am. We spent about three hours there before having a quick lunch and visiting the adjacent All Hallows by the Tower church. We then crossed the Thames via the Tower Bridge and walked west by the river. We eventually crossed the Thames again via the Millennium Bridge. We missed the ferry by just a minute or two and ended our day by taking the Underground.
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